Civil War 2.0 Weather Report, Election Hangover And Reduced Heat

“You recognize the grill man?” – Heat

Someone threw a grill at J.D. Vance.  That attack made headlines.

5.   Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
6.    People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology.  Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
7.    Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
8.    Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
9.    Opposing sides develop go
verning/war structures.  Just in case.
10.  Open War.

Volume VIII, Issue 6

ALL memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”.  I have, based kept the Clock O’Doom at 7.  The GloboLeftElite have reduced the narrative pressure pushing Civil War because they gained both the House and the Senate, and will pursue Trump in that fashion and have told their street soldiers to back off.  Beware: the number can climb quickly.

My advice remains.  Avoid crowds.  Get out of cities.  Now.  A year too soon is better than one day too late.

In this issue:  Front Matter – The Election And Civil War  – Violence and Censorship Update – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Who Decides? – Links

Front Matter

Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report.  These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month.  I’ve created a page (LINK) for links to all of the past issues.  Also, subscribe because you’ll join over 970 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.

Civil War Weather Report Previous Posts

 

The Election And Civil War

The election is over, and the results in the House of Representatives say it all:  a net Democratic pickup of a total of 42 seats.  The Republican effort to redraw maps, which triggered similar efforts in Democratic states, probably led to a loss of 16 seats by trading “safe” Republican districts for competitive ones.

Oops.

This is from the November, 2025 Civil War 2.0 Weather Report.  Yeah, I see the typo.

There are consequences to these results.

The actual Color Revolution in the United States that was being planned by the GloboLeftElite is no longer the plan.  Increasing disorder due to “fake” election results was the plan, had they lost (think George Floyd riots).  But they won.  Their goal had been to use these protests to have Trump declare them in insurrection, and the hard coup would follow.

There are still things that they’ll do.

In January, the investigations and lawfare will start as they gain control of the House and Senate.  Will the Senate repeal the filibuster?  As long as Trump holds the veto pen, chances are slim that they’ll go that far.

Vivek’s loss was a bright spot on a gloomy evening.

In February, the hearings start.  There will be document demands and even more lawsuits.  Expect the mainstream media to become increasingly anti-Trump.

Expect impeachment hearings to start in March and go nonstop for the next two years.

Will a Trump Supreme Court nominee (should there be an opening) be approved?  No.  Not a chance.  Even normal judgeships will likely go unfilled.

The biggest news is that it’s likely that this pulls “hot” civil war off the menu until 2028, at the earliest.

Yeah, that Iran war is about as popular as Ebola.

None of the structural problems will be fixed:  the A.I. bubble and its aftermath will whiplash the economy as the markets crash, even if A.I. doesn’t take any jobs.  Next, they’ll keep issuing so much money that even Somali and Indian fraudsters will say, “hold up, this is getting ridiculous”.  Racial divisions will increase, especially as whites are blatantly confronted with the evidence that they’re targeted for replacement.

Verdict?  No open civil war until 2028 at the earliest.

Violence and Censorship:

Obviously, the elephant in the room is France, where moslems decided to flex their power to shut down areas, loot, and burn schools students rioted because they’re not being taught hard enough.

It’s getting spicey in Blighty, where effete traitor “conservative” Jacob Rees Mogg seems to say that it’s okay for Englishmen to be replaced by Pakistanis and Indians, because they’re so very British, because they have passports.

And the white British people will be the ones responsible for complaining about their genocide.

Finally, it’s nice to see that the Democrats are ready to let bygones be bygones and make peace with Republicans.  After Senator Slotkin gets her trials and retribution.

Misery Index

The new Trump administration is shown in red.  Results continue to be much better than Biden’s misery.

But four years of Biden and the impacts of the Iran/Israel War are taking their toll.

Updated Civil War II Index

The Civil War II graphs are an attempt to measure four factors that might make Civil War II more likely, in real time.  They are broken up into Violence, Political Instability, Economic Outlook, and Illegal Alien Crossings.  As each of these is difficult to measure, I’ve created for three of the four metrics some leading indicators that combine to become the index.  On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.

Violence:

Violence indicators are way down because the GloboLeft doesn’t want violence now.

Political Instability:

Down is more stable, and it stayed down again this month at a near-record low.  Again, this was a processed that will go up soon as impeachment heats up.

Economic:

The economy ticked up slightly last month.

Illegal Aliens:

Still the near lowest level since the Weather Report started.

Who Decides?

One thing to keep in mind, in a system like that in the United States is that while I talk about the GloboLeft and the TradRight, the real decision makers are those that don’t care.

I’ll call our form of government an apathocracy, and, yes, that’s a new word I just made up.  For the most part, they don’t care.  They also, mainly, aren’t even paying attention.  J.D. Vance?  What’s that, a clothing store?  A corporate owned sports bar?

Yeah, those people.  That’s the reason that Democrats and Republicans run hard to the right or left during primaries, and then sprint to the center for the general election.  The voters that will make the decision in the general election just don’t care.

So, if the voters in the middle aren’t paying attention to anything but gas prices and the cost of that Big Mac© that makes them want to flip the lever for whatever guy is saying “change”.  Then they will proceed to ignore politics and wait to see if gas prices go down or if they get a raise.

They don’t care about the divide, just want to be able to afford steaks to grill and be left in peace.

I don’t think they’ll have that luxury, because at some point in the descent into warfare they will be made to care and pick sides, and the apathocracy will be ended.

LINKS

BAD GUYS

https://2026.electoral.dsausa.org/

GOOD GUYS

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/corona-pd-officers-hitch-a-ride-with-good-samaritan-to-catch-suspect/
https://www.firstalert4.com/video/2026/11/07/good-samaritan-breaks-car-window-free-3-year-old-girl-st-peters-pond/
https://krdo.com/news/2026/11/07/good-samaritan-carjacked-after-stopping-to-help-crash-victim/
https://abc7ny.com/post/good-samaritan-stabbed-defending-pregnant-rider-mta-bus/19392407/

ONE GUY

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/fairlane-shooting-19-year-old-who-acted-self-defense-killing-mall-gunman-sentenced

BODY COUNT

https://texasscorecard.com/federal/honduran-caravan-heads-for-us-border-following-midterm-elections/
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/what-is-causing-2026-us-measles-outbreak-vaccination-rates-travel-immigration-examined

VOTE COUNT

https://www.kcra.com/article/8-charts-explain-2026-midterms/74335794
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/surprising-turnout-rates-2026-midterms
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm4g1j0n92qdo
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/electoral-college-may-be-next-victim-2026-midterms

CIVIL WAR – OURS

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/alex-garland-civil-war-goes-viral-texas-blue-1236747843/
https://gothamist.com/news/inside-new-yorks-bitter-republican-civil-war-after-blue-wave
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vicious-maga-civil-war-erupts-in-aftermath-of-trump-wipeout-at-midterm-elections
https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/opinion/a-blaring-gop-wake-up-call-democrats-coming-civil-war-and-other-commentary/
https://washingtonstand.com/article/the-democrats-real-civil-war-starts-now
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-secession-movement-grows-12-more-counties-back-split
https://abcnews.com/Politics/nikki-haley-texas-secede-us-isnt/story?id=106837677

CIVIL WAR – THEIRS

https://www.socialeurope.eu/polands-constitutional-civil-war
https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/Global/left-wing-coup-attempt-poland-as-protests-grip-capital
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/02/the-guardian-view-on-polands-political-turmoil-an-ominous-portent-of-bigger-battles-to-come

What Is Your Profession?

“I miss the days when we could discuss ideas.”

That was The Mrs.  Politics once was that way:  people could have ideas, discuss them, and it didn’t immediately turn into a name calling session with the “everyone I don’t like is a Nazi” used as the final measuring stick.

Now, to be clear, politics is a bloodsport on the GloboLeft, and it’s egged on by the GloboLeftElite.  Charlie Kirk was murdered, and there have been multiple attempts at Trump.  And to be a rank-and-file white person murdered on a subway?

Yeah, whatever.  That person is too disturbed to go to trial.

The TradRight hasn’t really responded in fashion, mainly because there has been the idea that if we only vote harder, it will all work out.  TradRight people have lives outside of their ideology, and would rather spend their days working at productive things and their nights with family.

The GloboLeft, however, are paid to be GloboLeftists.  Jobs at USAID® were daycare for GloboLeftists who did things like make videos about the mosquito nets they shipped to Africa that the Africans then used as fishing nets to depopulate entire ecosystems of fish.  But the thought was there!  Who cares about the outcomes?

The colleges are where GloboLeftists are paid to be GloboLeftists, and beyond that, to spread their indoctrination to the students passing through the institutions.  A few disciplines, mainly those that have to deal with objective reality (engineering, for instance) maintain a more-conservative cadre, but even there the Academy selects for Diversity.

Try to be a white Ph.D. looking for work.

But the GloboLeft is better organized because the GloboLeftElite has managed to pay them to be GloboLeft.  They took the Long March Through the Institutions and used it to fund their movement.  They also used the media, first selling us that overpopulation was the threat, and now that we have that in check, why, there will be a population crash if we don’t import infinity foreigners.

Took decades.  But that was the plan all along.  And now?  Something I talked about in 2018 has happened.

The Fall of Texas and the Coming One Party State

 

Remember Leonidas in the movie 300, when he asked the Athenians what their profession was, and he got back an accountant and a project manager (or whatever it was)?  What was the profession of the Spartans?

War.

That’s where we are today.  The TradRight has to create value in the world to make money, and hires based on merit.  The GloboLeft hires GloboLeftists so that its ideological army is funded.  The politicians go along with this, and if D.O.G.E. tries to shut it down?

Some GloboLeftElite federal judge will keep the money flowing, while they rule that TradRight words are violence, and GloboLeft violence isn’t punishable.

The money must flow.

Even in Europe, the GloboLeft foot soldiers get paid to be GloboLeft foot soldiers.  All the “refugees” coming across the Channel to England are paid to be there.  Their housing is paid, their food is provided, and they get pocket money.  They are paid to be there, so that when the GloboLeftElite want to drum up some unrest, they’ll do it.

Bracken thinks they’re armed, and that the GloboLeftElite will be upset when their pets burn the place down, but I think the GloboLeftElite doesn’t think that far ahead.  They’re like the Jewish lesbian women who want to import infinity Palestinians and are shocked when those same moslems don’t support their causes.

Doesn’t matter to the GloboLeftElite.  They’re off in gated communities, enjoying diverse cuisine when they want it, otherwise being safe in their bungalows when they don’t.

At some point, however, the mask has to come off, and the plan be visible for what it really is.  The voter fraud, the mass importation, the taking of power, and the retribution that will follow when the GloboLeftElite take all the power.

They will, unlike the Republicans, use it.  The Republicans had two years to fight election fraud, and did nothing.

But, again, the mask is off.

I’ve heard people I would never have expected to react this way politically become shocked at what they’re seeing now.  This is good.  I think the idea that we could vote ourselves back to freedom was the drug.  The TradRight was addicted to it.

I don’t see now how they can think that voting will work.  The Republic died sometime in the past, certainly no later than the 1960s.  Now we’re coming to grips with that.

I was in a fantastic mood the day after the election.  I was, in fact, celebrating.

Celebrating the exposure of our enemy.  Celebrating the death of the addiction to the idea that we could vote ourselves back to our past.

There may be a time in the future when we can peacefully exchange ideas again, but I fear that few, if any, alive now will live to see that day.

So, what is your profession?

How Natural Gas, Cocaine, And A.I. May Create Food Shortages

“Overnight, the room fills with natural gas, the coffee pot clicks on in the morning, there’s a spark, and ka-boom.  No . . . .  I’m sensing it was more of a . . . ka-blam.” – Psych

Yup, that place is just full of petrolgeists.

As we behold that great distortion to the Earth that is A.I., it’s amazing to see how much it is goofing up systems everywhere.

First, it is a bigger cash mooch than my high school friend Todd who got hooked on coke (not Cherry Coke®) and was constantly looking for money so he could . . . buy more coke.  A.I. is like that, too, but the money is for data centers.

Not for running them, so much, but just building and paying for the data centers themselves.  The amounts are more than the GDP of any nation in Africa, which isn’t saying a lot, but sooner or later it runs into big money.  Why, Anthropic© claimed to have only lost $80 billion (do to an accounting charge) through the first six months, so, hey, what an investment, right?  And Anthropic® only has spending commitments of something like a trillion dollars through 2030.

I found all of the master keys to the local department stores on a single fob.  Gets me in anywhere.  It’s one ring to rule the mall.

Where is all this money coming from?  Well, mainly from places like your 401k, since A.I. companies are selling bunches of their debt as “investment grade”, so if you have bonds, well, you have A.I. all over you.  Oh, and this goes for your insurance company, too.

It reminds me of Dr. Suess™ and the Cat in the Hat:  “This debt is so big and so deep and so tall, there is no way to pay it.”

“No, not at all.”

These are commitments, mind you, that someone is going to be on the hook for.  Either the debtor (A.I. companies) pay or the lender (you) does.

But let’s pretend that this firecracker doesn’t fizzle out.  What else will it goof up?

Everything, honestly.

One of those is the cost to heat your home.

I think the invention of the shovel was groundbreaking.

Thanks to the Green® Energy™ Movement©, coal-fired power plants use The Devil’s Rock®.  It’s bad, mm’kay?

But people still need power, right?  I know that the GloboLeftElite would prefer that we just sit and shiver until our thighs rub together enough to generate enough heat to keep us warm in wintertime, but Ozempic® seems to have ruined that idea as peoples thighs are starting to get lean.

Nuclear?

We can’t do that.  It’s filled with gremlins and demons and the magic spirit of communism says “No nukes!” so loud the GloboLefties still genuflect to that altar today.  Besides, it takes years, is very expensive.  Oh, and I’ve shown that there isn’t nearly enough fuel to replace with nukes without massive investments (link below).

The Simpsons, Radioactive Potato Salad, And Running Out Of Electricity

I hear that an 80’s metal band is in financial trouble.  Good luck, Megadebt!

So, no.  That leaves wind, which is inconsistent and not cost competitive or?

Natural gas.  Natural gas was once regulated and the uses limited to heating buildings.  Why?  It’s efficient.  There’s infrastructure everywhere.  And it was consistently produced while demand was lumpy.  Make natural gas all summer, and store it in caverns and use it in winter when it’s cold.

It was also inexpensive, a cheap way for people to heat their houses without home coal heaters.

But those days are gone.

Natural gas is now the fuel of the A.I. boom.

I’m starting a drone delivery service for German breakfast foot.  I call it “LuftWaffles”.

That would be okay, I guess, but the Iranians knocked out a huge amount of natural gas production, the Russo-Ukrainian War has removed Russian production from Europe, and it’s projected that up to 7% more of US natural gas production will be shipped overseas by 2030.

A.I. will add another 3% to 5% demand by 2030.

I’m trying to tell you that this constant demand will end up driving up prices at minimum, and potentially drive shortages so that houses cannot be heated because there isn’t enough gas in storage.

To make matters worse, this will impact food prices as well.

How?  “We don’t eat natural gas, John Wilder!” you say, and I say:

“Yeah, we do.”

Natural gas is the biggest component used in nitrogen fertilizer production.  Nitrogen fertilizer is what farmers put on their crops to increase yield.  So, either farmers produce less food because they can’t afford the fertilizer, or they use the fertilizer because prices have gone up.

There are no other options.

There is a technical term for paying more and getting less, and it is called “becoming poor.”

My boss told me I wrote unreadable spaghetti-code.  I refused to comment.

It usually happens because someone squandered their money on something, and now have nothing to show for it.  You know, things like a foreign war or a data center that was never completed because they ran out of our money to spend on Sam Altman’s dreams.

In truth, I think the A.I. boom is nearly at the breaking point where they are going to run out of our money soon enough.  And then?  Perhaps a brave leader, inspired by The Cat in the Hat.

We’ll have to lift up
All the markets that fell,
Like the stocks
And the dollar and the jobs as well.
Then he said, “That is that.”
And then he was gone
With a tip of his hat.

Nah, just kidding.  We’ll have a dictator.  I mean, after the war.

Sith-Posting And “You Might Not Be An American If . . .”

Sith-Posting And “You Might Not Be An American If . . .”

“You underestimate my power!” – Revenge of the Sith

Why did Anakin® cross the road?  To get to the Dark Side©.

About the memes:  all of them are stolen from X®.  Sometimes X© becomes fascinated with an idea, and then it explodes.  This one is the idea that the Jedi® were the bad guys and that the Republic™ were the good guys, specifically Anakin© and his transformation into Darth Vader®.

Great creativity, and they’re generally not in any particular order with the text.

About the list:  Most people have heard the Jeff Foxworthy routine, “You might be a redneck . . .” since at this point it’s nearly 40 years old.  Really, it’s been that long.  So, I thought I might riff off it a bit with my own spin.

They might not be an American if…

Their X® account has the flag of some other country.

They need a translator to vote and the burka keeps getting in the way.

The Fourth of July is just another day that the people who work to feed and house them get off as a vacation day.

When they say “My people” it doesn’t include you.

The flags they wave in a parade don’t have multiple stars.

They think the Constitution is best read in its original language, you know, Spanish, Arabic, or Hindi.

English is a language they haven’t learned even though they’ve been here for 25 years.

They can name every holiday back home but go blank on Memorial Day.

That country they had to leave because it was too dangerous?  They vacation there.

They can’t pronounce that hateful word “Assimilation”.

They refuse to eat a bacon cheeseburger.

Their idea of civic participation is showing up for welfare and then voting for other Somalians.

They crossed the border and immediately started arguing that the border shouldn’t exist and that they are the real Americans.

The only American history they know is the part that justifies their grievances.

They call this place “theirs” but keep a one-way ticket home as a viable option.

Their kids are technically American on paper but are something else in practice.

They treat the Constitution like a menu rather than a limit on government.

“Rule of law” and freedom from corruption is what they demand from others.

They still vote not for party or principle, but for their own people.

They think the Pledge of Allegiance is haram.

They think our founding documents are just “suggestions from dead racist white guys.”

They can recite the rules of cricket or FIFA soccer but not the three branches of government.

Their version of the American Dream is welfare, remittances, and chain migration.

“Their rights” start the moment they cross and “having responsibilities” is considered oppression.

They measure success by how much they can extract and send home rather than how much they can build here.

They understand the benefits of the system without understanding the culture that produced it.

Their grandchildren speak the language of the place they left more fluently than English.

They consider criticism of mass immigration “hate” instead of math.

Their community association is organized by old-country caste first.

They arrived and immediately demanded the rules be changed to match their home country.

They think that anyone who objects to them being here is racist.

They root for their national soccer team rather than the American one, worse, they actually care about soccer.

They crossed illegally and then lecture citizens about compassion.

Their idea of freedom is the freedom to recreate the place they escaped.

They need a separate cultural center because the American one isn’t “theirs.”

“American” is a status they claim and a culture they reject.

Their children are taught that America is the problem, not the opportunity.

They measure progress by how many relatives they can bring over and get hired at Microsoft©.

“Integration” is what Americans are supposed to do for them.

They don’t understand that “We the People” does not include people who just got here.

They think “citizenship” is a transaction.

The only history they accept is the history that flatters their group.

They think the rule of law is what Americans owe them, not what they owe.

They arrived and immediately started organizing for more arrivals.

They treat American institutions as resources to be captured rather than maintained.

They think dual allegiance is normal and exclusive allegiance to the United States is extreme.

They think that “assimilation” is what other people should do.

Their version of diversity is everyone else changing to suit them and their culture.

They think “American values” are whatever values make it easier for more people from their group to arrive.

They still send money home while collecting services here.

The only American traditions they observe are the ones that pay with an EBT® or direct deposit.

They think “integration” means Americans learn their language and customs.

They think the American identity is whatever identity they brought with them.

The only American principles they fully accept are the ones that benefit their group.

They arrived and immediately started arguing that the founding of the United States was illegitimate.

They think that “illegal” was a temporary inconvenience on the way to permanent status.

They claim that a poem on the Statue of Liberty is the basis, somehow, for a national policy.

Yeah, my Jeff Foxworthy routine wouldn’t get a lot of laughs, and would probably get me arrested in England.  That’s okay, we’ll always have Anakin.

It Came From . . . Halloween

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara . . .” – Night of the Living Dead

The question for 2026, are ghost costumes occultural appropriation?

Movies are our modern campfire tales.  Yeah, I know, not as good as real campfire tales, but here we are.  Given that, one of the things that humanity has shared around the fire since we first discovered fire was scary stories.  Sure, we heard about the events of the day, but the stories, the old stories that were passed down of tragedy and the supernatural were the ones that the kids really listened to.

We’re not so different in 2026, we just lack the campfire and are distracted by the shiny objects that get put in front of us, like movies.  Since tomorrow is Halloween, based on publishing date, I thought I’d just run through a list of some of the Halloween movies that I thought were especially good.  As far as rules, I have once big one:  no more than one from a particular creator, otherwise my list would mainly be John Carpenter movies and Alien.

Not all of them are scary, as you’ll see, which is okay.  I’ve never been to a Halloween party where they actually killed people, so at least part of the day as we celebrate in modern times is tied to having fun, so some of the movies are just fun.

Is this a definitive top 10 list?  No.  It’s a list of great movies based on the mood I’m in at noon on 10/29/2026.  No spoilers.

First off must be Halloween.  This movie was shot on a shoestring, and made $47 million dollars in 1978 money.  It’s about an insane kid who escapes a mental institution and wants to kill teenagers who are having sex.  Obviously, feminists hated it, and many of them have written doctoral dissertations about this film on their way to becoming spinsters who are that horrid lunch lady with a Ph.D.  The bad part of this movie is that it was so very foundational to modern movie horror that everyone copied it.

If Halloween wasn’t named Halloween it would have made the list, but it wouldn’t have been first on the list.  First would have been Alien.  Why?  It’s just a haunted house in space, but the thing haunting the house is an alien.  That’s not a spoiler, because it’s in the title.  This film is visually stunning, because that’s what Ridley Scott does with every film.  However, this one is also tightly written into a perfect little claustrophobic story with life and death on the lines.  And a hot chick in her underwear.

I continue to maintain that The Exorcist, despite the denunciations from various religious leaders, is the most fundamentally Christian horror movie ever made.  It depicts Evil as a tangible reality, it depicts the power of Christ saving a young child, and it depicts priests being dedicated and selfless.  Oh, yeah, the crucifix thing.  There’s that.  I get it, but in the whole that movie has probably brought more people to religion than pushed them away.

The other side of the coin is Ghostbusters.  I sure like that movie.  Too bad they never made any sequels or follow-on series.  Oh, well, I’ll just have to make due with the only movie ever made about tied to this universe.  The movie itself is quotable, rewatchable, hilarious, and has the perfect cast, including the actress that played a character in Alien, believe it or not.

Poltergeist is, perhaps, the most cursed (in real life) movie on this list.  There were many untimely deaths of young women associated with the film, which is well known.  A lesser-known horrifying fact is that in the swimming pool scene with all the human skeletons, those were real human skeletons.  The actors didn’t know that they were, essentially, sitting in and getting splashed with a soup of actual dead people for the five days it took to shoot the scene.

Okay, palate cleanser time.  The Addams Family started as a set of cartoons and then became a television series and then a children’s cartoon and then finally a movie in 1991 and they’re still making Addams Family crap today.  Fun, silly, but for me the original TV series is still the best.

Back into the darker themes:  The Shining.  Stephen King hated this movie, but he liked the money a whole bunch because it bought lots of cocaine.  This movie spawned nearly as many conspiracy theories as a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano.  The biggest?  That this was Stanley Kubrick’s coded admission that he had faked the Moon landing.  I have been told from someone I trust with a security clearance that this is true but that Kubrick, being a stickler for accuracy, demanded they film on location.  Probably Jack Nicholson’s best movie.

The Shining elbows out Salem’s Lot from this list, which was way scarier than a television movie had any right to be.

There are about two scenes from The Crow that could have been removed to make it a perfect movie, as it is, it’s still a compelling story.  Digging deeper into the “why” of this story, the motivation for this film was the tragedy of the creator trying to cope with the grief caused by the death of his fiancé, who had been killed by a drunk driver.  The star of this movie, Brandon Lee, died making it.  So, this movie may even be more cursed than Poltergeist.

Nobody died making Steel Magnolias, which makes me sad.  The major horror of this movie is that it exists, and that I once was talked into watching this 118-minute movie about women talking about their feelings, which is more chilling than anything John Carpenter ever put on film.  I cannot in good conscience recommend watching this film to anyone, even my worst enemy.

As to movies that aren’t scary at all, Fright Night (1985) is one.  Fright Night captures that age before cable TV when UHF stations would show crappy old B movies with live hosts shilling the local stereo and water bed stores.  The catch?  A real vampire moves in next to Charlie Brewster.  Good fun, have no idea how it got an R rating unless I forgot some boobs.  Not scary.

There’s a recipe for humor, parody the poster of a movie that didn’t have a poster in a fairly obscure style.  Next I’ll start telling jokes about high cycle metal fatigue or inside jokes from books that only six people have read.  That’ll get ‘em laughing, Wilder!

And for my obscure adder:  I saw Night of the Living Dead when I was five, and that was really scary, but I was five.  One that scared me when I saw it as a 12 or 13 year old on our local “Fright Night® late night horror movie on UHF” station was Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.  This is the original 1973 movie, not the horrible Guillermo del Toro remake where he failed to catch the magic.  It’s a decent haunted house movie that really got me, with the idea of hordes of little supernatural people living in the walls and basement.  It was well done and very creepy, especially as a television movie.

Okay, those are some of my favorites, and I probably could have done a dozen more.  What did I miss that you love?

Manmade Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension

“Mr. Quaid, can you hear yourself? She’s real because you dreamt her?” – Total Recall

Every pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.

It’s the spooky season running up to Halloween, so, why not get a little strange and think about the dark side of things.  I mean, with a chuckle or two.

Philip K. Dick is dead.

I think.

In life, Dick was obsessed with one overriding theme:  that reality ain’t what it used to be.  In his stories, he focused on things not being what they seemed to be.  During his life he was dirt poor, and drug addicted.  Back then, I hear, the goal of hippies was to do as many drugs as they could and not get caught.

But enough about the Tour de France.

If that wasn’t enough, Dick was also paranoid, so I imagine having him over for dinner would have been, well, interesting, especially if he was in the midst of a meth binge.

I wonder if Dick ever tried speed dating?

But his vision caught up with the world and since his death many movies and at least two television series have been based on his work.  I’ll say, if you stop The Man in the High Castle at the end of season one, it’s a pretty good show.  And some of the movies have been entertaining.

We are, however, getting to the point in the news cycle where Dick’s vision seems to be on the verge of being able to be real as he wrote a lot about machine intelligence, so let’s review A.I.

In the last few days, Jack Dorsey of O.G. Twitter© fame, introduced an A.I. named Dessa that he claims was entirely trained on spoken language.  If true, this is a huge increase in the amount of information that A.I.s can be trained on, as the spoken word contains so much more information than the same words as written down.

I have a Slovakian friend who’s a sound tech.  And a Czech one, too.  And a Czech one, too.

We had speech far before we had writing, and the intonation, timbre, pitch, and timing of words all have meaning that is very difficult to catch in the written word.  I don’t need to have to wonder what The Mrs. means when she asks, “What are you doing?” because that sentence, though it can contain hundreds of different meanings, is always very clear from the way she says it.  This is unlike when The Mrs. says, “Don’t leave your socks in the front room.”

I have no idea what The Mrs. means by that one.

Training A.I. by voice is, I suppose, the next phase of A.I. development.  Add in the capacity to process text, and you’ve got at least twice the training material, if not an order of magnitude more.

What’s next?

I don’t trust the LGBT community, they never give straight answers.

Well, why not mimic the sensory input of a child in a robot, and have the A.I. interact with the physical world the way an infant human would?  You can mimic the stimuli that a child feels, from being tired, to being hungry, to being alone, to feeling pain and discomfort.

I’ve often thought that the limiting factor in the training of A.I. was in giving it limits, i.e., bounding the formless void that it dreams in with walls and time and sensation.  My thought has been it is the existence of those very limits that created consciousness.

So now, an “infant” A.I. is trained and conditioned on the world.  Hell, it doesn’t even have to be a real world, it could be a simulation, since the A.I. could easily be placed in a realistic video game engine to experience the world.

And it would be easy to do this with 100,000 A.I.s at a time, discarding all of those that didn’t meet the parameters the researcher was looking for into electronic oblivion, even if they were conscious.  The researcher could use just the best of them as templates to build all of the A.I.s for the next phase of development.

Those A.I.s then would just be copies of the A.I. that had the “actual” experience.

Paging Philip K. Dick.

All her genes were hand me downs.

If that worked, and the researcher gave it a body, well, we’re straight into Bladerunner territory where we, humanity, may have created something that is indistinguishable from a conscious human being out of this laboratory.  I’ll note, if it’s indistinguishable, at what point would we have to call it alive?

At what point would we have to call it human?

Can it get worse?

Certainly!

The post is titled Manmade Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension, so I’ve gotta live up to that.

It gets worse.  What happens if we use all that simulation data . . . on us.

Aldous Huxley famously wrote Brave New World, which, arguably is closer to reality than Orwell’s 1984.  But I digress, that’s fodder for another post.

Brave New World centered around a caste system.  In it, there were five levels:

  • Alphas: the intellectual elite.
  • Betas: smart, but not independent and not capable of revolt.
  • Gammas: mass-produced drone men with some skills.
  • Deltas: no-skill laborers, can’t read.
  • Epsilons: barely above animals.

These creatures were based on genetic engineering, chemical manipulation, and conditioning.

Based on what we’ve seen with immigration, it certainly seems like Brave New World is the goal.  I’ll let you fill in the blanks.

Hey, could Vivek’s next scam be a ShamWow of an idea?

At what point are humans replaced by A.I. in the caste system our overlords would have?

At what point do they use A.I. to create a Skinner Box for conditioning humans based on A.I. research?

At what point do they cease needing wild-born humans at all?

At what point will they want to discard us?

We seem to be messy and independent, which isn’t good for the bottom line, and certainly not good for the comfort of the elite.

These risks certainly do seem to converge, one a man-like artificial servant that is born of hundreds of thousands of sacrifices, and one a neutered caricature of a human built to serve the needs of a ravenous elite.

Thankfully Dick and Huxley were paranoid mad dreamers and nothing like that could ever happen.  And don’t think I’m a paranoid drug user.  Don’t you be calling me a Dick!

Besides, that’s the word that The Mrs. keeps using when she mentions socks.  Whatever could she mean?

The Political Compass Ate My Homework, Part XIII

I thought my notes were more extensive on my planned post, and I’m feeling lazy, so, please enjoy the following, knowing that I hit the hot tub and had a cigar rather than toiling for hours.

The first batch are political compass memes.  Top left, actual commies.  Top right, me, mostly.  Bottom left, suburban white women commies.  Bottom right, libertarians.

 

 

Okay I’m with the libertarians on the one below:

How you view the other quadrants from your quadrant.

Okay, I’m anywhere on the right side of this line.

 

I could really see a future for Vivek selling Sham-Wow towels.

Two crow stories.  I like the first one best.

It’s those Christians tearing the place up again . . .

Whoops, one more political compass meme:

 

 

 

We know that the boys on the boats were dreaming of this future.

There is a switch . . . and it’s looking better every day.

Will We Win? Yes. Will It Be Horrible? Also Yes.  So, We Might As Well Enjoy It.

“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.  An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down!  But it is not this day.  This day we fight!  By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, men of the West!” – Return of the King

Being an involuntary organ donor in the USSR was really disheartening.

The main poison that led to the GULAG was hope.

Hope slowed action, and when the KGB or Cheka thugs walked up the stairs of the commieblock apartments, people didn’t react because of the hope that it wouldn’t be them.  Soviet soldiers that had flung themselves against the MG-42s of the Wehrmacht or SS Panzer divisions on the Ostfront stood cowering behind their doors because of hope that it might be the comrade next door that the KGB was collecting.

And blind hope really is silly because the comrade in the apartment next door has the exact same hope.  It also saps willpower.

However, there’s the Blackpill®.  Now, my definition of the Blackpill™ is that things can never get better, that all is lost, and civilization is doomed.  If anything, the Blackpill© is nihilism on steroids, and is probably worse than hope because it brings with it defeatism.  It’s a philosophy for losers.

I reject then, both mindless hope, and also mindless nihilism.

I had a water bed that was extra bouncy.  I used spring water.

I’m not sure what I’d call how I feel.  Redpill© isn’t quite enough, because I believe that, indeed, we can and will emerge victorious in the end.  The lights won’t go out forever.

But victory requires intent.  No general ever won a battle intending to lose.  Elon Musk didn’t just wake up one morning and say, “Holy shit!  I have reusable rockets and nearly a trillion dollars!”  And this post didn’t assemble itself out of the luminiferous aether.

No, people drive conditions and drive events so that that victory emerges as a condition.  They shape the world and the possibility of what can be through willpower, belief, and intent.

I admire Will Smith.  It takes a lot of guts to defend someone else’s woman like that.

Where then, are we headed?

First, Trump didn’t start the MAGA parade.  He saw where people were already headed and jumped out in front of the parade.  I recall one rally from his latest presidential run when he bragged about creating the Vaxx®.  The people in the audience booed Trump.

Trump stopped mentioning the Vaxx© after that.  He looked back and saw the parade wasn’t going to go that direction.  This is, of course, one of the primary distinctions between TradRight and GloboLeft:  TradRight is hard to lead, GloboLeft grovels for someone to beat them and tell them what to do and believe as they sniff the glove.

So, the movement is there.  It’s the oxygen in the room.

Second, there’s France.  I don’t know how a Frenchman can look at the country and see that they’re the next best thing to being conquered and not feel anger building inside him.  How many murders?  How many rapes?  How many riots?  How many precious symbols of his religion and former nation can he stomach to see destroyed before he snaps?

At some point a strong man will look at the burning Louvre, the frolicking invaders, and Macron going to Davos to say the official statement that “Diversity is the strength of France!” and decide that the official statement can use a rake for toilet paper.

This, then is the fuel.

My landlord wanted to talk to me about the high air conditioning bill.  I said, “Sure, my door is always open.”

The spark?  I don’t know.  Perhaps something as simple as a man who says, “no”, or a Major in the Army from Montana who sees a crown lying in a gutter, and picks it up, sees the oxygen that is the people, and the fuel that is the anger, and decides to lead the parade to where it must inevitably go:  conflict, mountains of skulls, and rebirth.

I do believe that on the other side of this is a rebirth, a new golden age.

I also believe that if you’re over 40, the chances of you living to see that new golden age are zero, and it may be that no one alive today will live to see it.  I think it will be horrible in more ways than mankind has yet seen on this planet.  Yet, this terrible gulf to herald in the future is likely necessary and preferable to the slide into tyranny we’re headed on now.

But I believe, deeply, that the forces of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness will win, and I believe that because, despite all the horrors of the past, they’ve never died.  Gone dim?  Certainly.

But never died.  This then is the pill that I choose to take, the pill that will build a future for my grandchildren and their children.

I don’t have a color for this pill, but I’ll call it the Victory Pill™ for now.

Which might explain why only two Mexicans cross the border wall at a time.  No tres passing.

We don’t get to see the end of this, but we do get to build the foundations, and shape what will follow.  I have no illusions that this blog will be read 1,000 years after my death, let alone the 2,300 years that Aristotle’s thoughts have survived.

No.  But I’ll try to do my part, even if it’s to be the smallest PEZ®-shaped block in the foundations of what is to come.

And what wins is someone who believes they can win, who goes out against all odds, sees the crown lying in the gutter, picks it up, and carries the future of mankind.  That man may be out there now, and may yet be unborn.

Will we win?

Yes.

Will it be horrible?

Yes.

My hockey nickname was “Titanic” because I looked good until I hit the ice.

I don’t think anyone will point back on this time and place and call it the ideal, the Golden Age.  Those times are in the past.

And in the future.

We are not done, but hoping our way to victory won’t help.  Neither will despair.

Building a foundation, however, will.

We inherited this civilization from our ancestors, and only hold it in trust for our children.  This is our time and place to stand.

Kim Jong Un Ate My Homework

A bit tired tonight, and I’ve got to get up about three hours earlier than usual tomorrow.  Enjoy the memes, more of the usual nonsense Friday.

 

Proof that Kim Jong Un is dead! (LINK)

Forgotten War

I originally published this on December 9.  I wrote it for the events unfolding now.  You can find all of my songs here.  I will be reposting a few of them as events make them more relevant than when I wrote them.  Oddly, you can also find my stuff on Spotify.

Forgotten War
By John Wilder

For ten thousand years we held the wall
Blade in hand, backs to the sea
We learned their lies, their empty oaths
We buried them beneath the ash of history

We rose from blood to iron and stone
Built towers that scraped the face of God
Their spears became toys, their screams a lullaby
We laughed as their kingdoms turned to sod

Centuries rolled, the watch-fires dimmed
Our sons forgot the taste of fear
We laid the sword upon the shelf
And called the wolf a friend sincere

The gates swing wide, the smile is cold
Same eyes that burned our villages of old
Your blood, your name, your very tongue
Welcomes the blade that carved our young

We forgot how to hate
We forgot how to kill
We forgot the old mandate
Spare none, none, none upon the hill!

They never laid their hunger down
They only waited, patient, vile, and still
And now the wolf walks in our town
We’ll learn to make war again – we will!

From the grave I scream without a voice
I claw at dust that once was clay
My distant son shakes the serpent’s hand
And calls the jackal “brother” today

The peace we won became our chain
Mercy turned to slow suicide
The enemy kept the ancient flame
We let the fire in our marrow die

No trumpet sounds, no banner flies
Just quiet knives in the dead of night
Your child sleeps while the old oath dies
And the savage sharpens his appetite

We forgot how to hate
We forgot how to kill
We forgot the old mandate
Spare none, none, none upon the hill!

They never learned, they never changed
They only waited for our mercy to spill
Now the wolf is in the fold unchained
We’ll learn to make war again – we will!

Hear me, ancestors, hear me, ghosts
The blood remembers what the mind forgot
Steel still sings inside our bones
The wolf will learn what the lamb was not

We will remember how to hate
We will remember how to kill
We will rekindle the old mandate
Spare none, none!  None upon the hill!

The long peace ends, the lesson’s learned
The fire returns with a brighter glow
Your sons will bare their teeth and burn
And we will make war again –

Hell yes, we will make war again!

Forward, my sons – the wolf dies tonight!